By Natalie & Leon Taylor 1. DEVELOPMENT ID Shelf Title Author Brief Description No. No. 1 1.1 Chess Made Easy C.J.S. Purdy & G. Aimed for beginners, Koshnitsky 1942, 64 pages. 2 1.2 The Game of Chess H.Golombek Advance from beginner, 1945, 255pages 3 1.3 A Guide to Chess Ed.Gerard & C. Advance from beginner Verviers 1969, 156 pages. 4 1.4 My System Aron Nimzovich Theory of chess to improve yourself 1973, 372 pages 5 1.5 Pawn Power in Chess Hans Kmoch Chess strategy using pawns. 1969, 300 pages 6 1.6 The Most Instructive Games Irving Chernev 62 annotated masterpieces of modern chess of Chess Ever Played strategy. 1972, 277 pages 7 1.7 The Development of Chess Dr. M. Euwe Annotated games explaining positional play, Style combination & analysis. 1968, 152pgs 8 1.8 Three Steps to Chess MasteryA.S. Suetin Examples of modern Grandmaster play to improve your playing strength. 1982, 188pgs 9 1.9 Grandmasters of Chess Harold C. Schonberg A history of modern chess through the lives of these great players. 1973, 302 pages 10 1.10 Grandmaster Preparation L. Polugayevsky How to prepare technically and psychologically for decisive encounters where everything is at stake. 1981, 232 pages 11 1.11 Grandmaster Performance L. Polugayevsky 64 games selected to give a clear impression of how victory is gained. 1984, 174 pages 12 1.12 Learn from the Grandmasters Raymond D. Keene A wide spectrum of games by a no. of players annotated from different angles. 1975, 120 pgs 13 1.13 The Modern Chess Sacrifice Leonid Shamkovich ‘A thousand paths lead to delusion, but only one to the truth.’ 1980, 214 pages 14 1.14 Blunders & Brilliancies Ian Mullen and Moe Over 250 excellent exercises to asses your Moss aptitude for brilliancy and blunder. 1990, 160pg 74 1.15 The Art of Sacrifice in Chess Rudolf Spielmann Spielmann’s classic idea is that you can win by giving up material. 1951, 195 pages ID Shelf Title Author Brief Description No No. 75 1.16 Combinations The Heart of Irving Cherney Many outstanding combinations from over 14 Chess Grandmasters games. 1967, 240 pages. 86 1.17 Play Winning Chess Seirawan and An easy to use beginners book of chess. Silman 1995, 213 pages 87 1.18 Winning Chess Tactics Seirawan and For intermediate players, about basic tactics and Silman strategies. 1995, 248 pages 89 1.19 Win at Chess Ron Curry Includes openings to endgames, for intermediate players. 1995, 258 pages 92 1.20 Secrets of Chess Training Mark Dvoretsky Includes analysis of adjourned positions, the endgame and studies. 1991, 216 pages 93 1.21 Winning Chess Brilliancies Yasser Seirawan Includes move by move account of the best chess games for the last 25 years. 1995, 257 pages 94 1.22 Secrets of Practical Chess John Dunn Includes defending difficult positions, openings, avoiding mistakes, calculating, pressure and time trouble. 1998, 173 pages. 10 1.23 Chess Gerald Abrahams Scientific analysis, middle game tactics and 0 strategies, opening refinements. 1971, 256 pgs 10 1.24 The Chess Mind Gerald Abrahams Focus on intuition, reasoning, calculation, 1 imagination, memory & will power. 1960, 335p 10 1.25 Improve Your Chess Now Jonathon Tisdall J.Tisdall explains a new approach to chess 4 thinking. 1997, 223 pages. 10 1.26 The Basis of Combination J. Du Mont Making combinations easier to understand. 6 1944, 213 pages 10 1.27 The Middle Game in Chess E. A. Znosko- Analysis, position evaluation, attack and 8 Borovsky defence of middle game strategy 1949, 220pgs 11 1.28 Positional Sacrifices Niel McDonald Sacrifices; on open lines, exchanges and 4 psychology of sacrifices. 1994, 129 pages 11 1.29 The daily Telegraph, Chess David Norwood Chess puzzles, easy to expert level. 9 Puzzles 12 1.30 Logical Chess Move by Irving Chernev Step by step analysis of 33 games, emphasis on 1 Move middle game. 1957, 250 pages. 12 1.31 Technique in Chess Gerald Abrahams Developing techniques and value of pieces 3 1961, 215 pages. 12 1.32 The Art of Mastering Chess Eduard Gufeld A complete course for beginners, 1994, 262 p. 5 13 1.33 Complete Chess Strategy 2 Ludek Pachman Pawn-play & the centre, 1976, 181 pages. 0 13 1.34 Complete Chess Strategy 3 Ludek Pachman Play on the wings, 1978, 170 pages 1 13 1.35 101 Winning Chess Fred Reinfeld Pins, forks, discovered attacks & other ID Shelf Title Author Brief Description No. No. 140 1.39 The Chess Legacy of Jose J.Capablanca Endgame strategies, pawn positions & Raoul Capablanca middlegame theory. 1966, 128 pages. 142 1.40 Improve Your Game 100 Paul Lamford 100 Chess Puzzles, 1999, 127 pages. Chess Puzzles 151 1.41 Improve Your Middlegame Andrew Kinsman Read and play method with puzzles, 2000, 144 Play pages. 158 1.42 Attack and Counter attack Fred Reinfeld Tactics and strategy of planing a chess game, in Chess 1959, 154 pages. 159 1.43 Chess Problems B.P Barnes The best chess problems, 156 pages. 160 1.44 The Art of the Middle P.Keres & Middle game theory, 1964, 234 pages Game A. Kotov 163 1.45 The Times Winning Chess R.Keene Planning, strategy, cominations and traps, endgame and opening theory, 1995, 144 pages. 166 1.46 Hot to Think Ahead in Horowitz & Methods and techniques of planning your entire Chess Fred Reinfeld game, 1972, 268 pages. 167 1.47 Leonard Barden’s Chess Leonard Barden Collection of 300 best chess puzzles from Puzzle Book Leonard’s daily column. 174 1.48 The King-Hunt John Nunn & Sharpens your attacking instincts, practical tips 202 1.50 Winning with Reverse WilliamWilliam ReuterCozens Opening,middlegameon how to conduct King-Hunts. & endings 1996, are great 160pgs for 204179 1.511.49 LittleImprove book your of chessOpening Play UsborneChris Ward SimilarRead & toPlay chess method made with easy puzzles. 2000, 205 1.52 Find the Winning Move Gary Lane Endgame143pgs (part & overall of series improvement, see 151 1.41 theory above) & OPENINGS ID Shelf Title Author Brief Description No. No. 15 2.1 Chess Openings: Theory I.A. Horowitz Definitive study of all the important openings, with and Practice 2,660 fully analysed variations and 439 complete illustrative games. 1964, 784 pages. 16 2.2 Chess Master vs. Chess Max Euwe and This work consists of twenty five games between Amateur Walter Meiden master and amateur. 1971, 308 pages. 17 2.3 1.P-QN4 Andrew Soltis This book has one of Arved Wasser’s favourite openings. 1972, 45 pages. 18 2.4 Larson’s Opening 1.P- Andrew Soltis Another trend which gives white an under standing of QN3 this unusual opening. 1972, 44pages 19 2.5 Encyclopedia of Chess A. Matanovic Grandmaster games of: 1. d4-Nf6 2. c4-e6 and Openings (E) 1. d4-Nf6 2. c4-g6 L d7-d5. 1978, 464 pages. 20 2.6 Encyclopedia of Chess A. Matanovic Grandmaster games of: 1. d4-d5 and 1. d4-Nf6 2. c4- Openings (D) g6 L d7-d5. 1977, 401 pages 21 2.7 Encyclopedia of Chess A. Matanovic Grandmaster games of: 1. e4-e6 and 1.e4-e5. 1974, Openings (C) 348 pages 22 2.8 Encyclopedia of Chess A. Matanovic Grandmaster games of: 1. e4… 1…c5, 1…e6, 1…e5 Openings (B) and 1.e4-c5. 1975, 398 pages 23 2.9 Encyclopedia of Chess A. Matanovic Grandmaster games of: 1.d4-Nf6 2.c4 and 1.d4 Nf6 2. Openings (A) c4 2…e6, 2…g6. 1979, 474 pages 24 2.10 The Sicilian Craig Pritchett This book covers all the important modern ideas Scheveningen connected with this variation. 1977, 198 pages 25 2.11 The Application of Y.P. Gerller Has games that pays attention to opening plans and Chess Theory development in middle games. 1984, 255 pg 26 2.12 Chess Openings Mike Basman Explains principals and correct play and strong positions for attack and defence. 1987, 256 pgs 27 2.13 Unorthodox Openings Joel Benjamin ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’ and Eric Schiller 1987, 151 pages 28 2.14 The Polish Defence 1… Thomas 25 annotated illustrative games to present a complete b5 Kapitaniak picture of the opening. 1988, 58 pages 29 2.15 Batsford Chess Gary Kasparov It is the most comprehensive, convenient and up-to- Openings 2 and Raymond date book currently available. 1989, 411pg Keene 30 2.16 How to Play the Torre Eric Schiller The variation is flexible and allows both posit- Attack ional manoeuvring d4, Nf3 & Bg5. 1991,153pg 76 2.17 The Kings Indian Attack Norman A brief description of the Kings Indian Attack. Weinstein 1976, 47 pages. ID Shelf Title Author Brief Description No. No. 83 2.18 French: MacCutcheon T.D. Harding The MacCutcheon and Advanced Lines in new and Advanced Lines notation 84 2.19 Nimzowitsch/Larsen Raymond Keene 1.b3 is one of the most interesting and flexible Attack opening systems studied. 1981, 130pgs 90 2.20 Play the French John L Watson This book provides a complete repertoire for black in the French Defence. 1986, 208 pages 97 2.21 Alekhine’s Defence R.G. Eales and This book contains many variations of Alekhine’s A.H. Williams defence. 1973, 140 pages 102 2.22 The Sicilian Dragon Eric Schiller & A report on the main line (9.Bc4) of the Yugoslav Jonatham Attack in the Sicilian Dragon. 1987, 134 pages Goldman 103 2.23 The Chess Players Howard Staunton Includes a variety of openings and endings. 1994, 518 Handbook pages. 107 2.24 Modern Chess Openings R.C.